The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
THE PENALTY OF PROMINENCE.

some of Mrs Cieveiand's Experiences on Her
Trip from massachusetts Washin gton.
Correspondence Philadelphia Press.
Would anybody believe that no less than five
women actually went ND TO the state-room door
and pushed 1t open with the intention of getting
look at Mrs. Cleveland and then went gig
gingly and exultngly back to their friends with
the account of their exp1oita Two attacking
parties were made up right in my neighborhood,
and was forced to overheac both the prepara-
tlons and the results
II showed the door and says: Excuse me,
is this Mrs Browns stateroom~ and then I
backed ont quick possible. for had real
good look at her. She is pretty a picture"
inns came from sharp faced Yankee woman
VINO had resolved TO do or die. At the fifth
a, tack the iattice-door closed and locked.
The next attacking party discovered this and
then 1t was rumored that Mrs. Cleveland had
gone TO dinner. 1t showed great strategic skill
upon General Greely's part that he actually got
his wife and Mrs. Cleveland down the dining
room before the hungry crowd on the upper
Is an inside door to the large state
rooms on the Pilgrim connected with the
saloon and the Greedy party had gone down
without coming out deck. The news that
there had been a flank movement spread like
wildfre and the rush for that dinlng-room was
something to be remem bered. In MARTIN
Chuzzlewit" Dickens describes the effect of the
dinner bell upon the American boarder. Dick
ems ought to have seen the Pilgrims passengers
go to the dining room in Mrs. Cleveland's wake
They couldn't rush because of the throng, but
they pushed with all their might, and within
five minutes after the news had spread that
Mrs Cleveland was at her soup there were 500
people clamoring for admission to the dining
room.
Walters were stationed at the eangway to seq
that people did not go down faster than there
was room for them, and they had a hard time of
it that night. General Greedy and his party
were placed at the other end of the dining room.
The crowd, by pushing hard, managed to push
few of the leaders into the door of the dining
room SO that those leaders could see Mrs. Cieve-
land in the distance and pass back description
of what was going Each stage of the dinner
was thus described in detail. and
the information was passed along for the de-
location of the 500 who could see nothing.
Mrs. Cleveland must have eaten very good
dinner that night, for when thought that the
whole excitement must have died away, and went
down at halfp to get some dinner the throng
was still there waiting. Hundreds had distributed
themelves the neiehborng lounges. leaving in
structions with the negro walters to call them
when Mrs Cleveland appeared, and it is to the
credit of the walters that they did nothing of the
to the Rangway and escape bafore the devoted
900 know what had happened.
One very fat man who was loud in his denun-
citation of the disgraceful curiosity of the Amer
lean people and the rudeness shown in following
Mrs. Cleveland. but who, from his own ac-
count, had been first in the fray, inclined to
howl because somebody had trod on his corn.
Nevertheless, he was ready with the follow
ing excuse, which he put forward on behalf
of the people who had Mrs.
Cleveland: He said that it reminded him of a
young girl who appeared in Western
courtroom and wanted to have young fellow
arrested for kissing her. The judge said to her:
Excuse me. miss, but did you have that hat on
when the villain kissed you" 'tYes, sir" she
swered That dress and that bewitchng
sasha" Eyes. sir" was again the answer. Then
the judge pronounced sentence: Acquitted
upon ground OF emotional insanity"